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BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 

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GEORGE M. KOBER, M. D., LL. D. 

DEAN OF THE 

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

COMPILED AND ARRANGED 

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THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY 
MARCH 28, 1920 



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M. D., March 7th 1873, Georgetown University 
LL. D., June 14th 1906, Georgetown University 



BIOGRAPHY 

OF 

GEORGE MARTIN KOBER, M.D., LL.D. 

DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF HYGIENE, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Francis A. Tondorf, S. J., 
Head of the Department of Physiology, Georgetown Medical School. 




S MUCH knowledge does not constitute wisdom nor 
a facile memory a philosopher, so mastery of the 
medical science does not of itself make a great 
physician. If he be without a heart, the sufferings 
and countless ills that human flesh is heir to, become 
to the practitioner so many modes or accidents of 
being clinical phenomena, to be tabulated, observed, 
treated and cured, it may be, but there his philosophy of utility exhausts 
itself. 

When, on the other hand, to skill and learning is joined the sweet 
and generous temper of the friend and comforter who knows the 
precious art of penetrating beneath the sore to the seared soul, then 
has medicine achieved the pattern set by the first Great Physician of 
Humanity. 

It was not by chance that the Anglo-Saxons called the Saviour of 
the world "Haelend," the healer. The true dignity of knowledge lies 
in its dedication to the common good. To indicate that the seventy 
years of the life of Dean Kober measure up faithfully to this standard 
has made the task of itemizing the following facts one of sincerest love. 
Dr. George Martin Kober was born to Jacob and Dorothea (Behr) 
Kober at Alsfeld, Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, on March 28, 1850. He 
received his earlier education at the public and grand-ducal "Real- 
schule" of his native town. His father, a revolutionist, had vowed 
that none of his sons should serve under a German king, prince, or 
potentate. Accordingly he early prevailed upon George to emigrate to 
the United States, which he did in April, 1867. Upon his arrival, 
he found that his brother Charles, who had preceded him to the States, 



had secured for him an assignment to the hospital corps at the Carlisle 
Barracks, Pennsylvania. Under the tutelage of Surgeon Joseph J. B. 
Wright, I". S. A., Kober began here what might be fittingly styled his 
pre-medical course. His application in January, 1870, for an appoint- 
ment as hospital steward was acted favorably on and accordingly we 
find him reporting for duty on January 10, at the Frankford Arsenal, 
near Philadelphia. Here he read medicine privately under Dr. Robert 
Bruce Burns, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. Ordered 
to Washington, to the office of the Surgeon-General, in September, 
L871, he found it possible to formally enter upon his medical studies 
in the Medical School of Georgetown University. With the schedule 
calling for no exercises before 5 P. M., Kober was able to attend all 
the classes and, not satisfied with this, he tutored privately under Drs. 
Johnson Eliot and Robert Reyburn. After two winter and summer 
courses he was graduated in March, 1873. The following winter he 
figured as the first graduate of a post-graduate course, inaugurated by 
Drs. Thompson, Busey, Ashford, and others, at the Columbia Hospital, 
Washington, D. C. During the period of his medical studies, Kober 
considered himself fortunate in being assigned the duty of indexing 
all the official communications on file in the Surgeon-General's office 
from 1812 to the date of his departure in 1874. In these dusty records 
he found many items of extreme scientific, historical, and epidemio- 
logical interest; so the reports of Surgeon William Beaumont, sta- 
tioned at Fort Mackinac, Michigan, on his "Observations and Experi- 
ments in 1825 in the case of Alexis St. Martin," who had been treated 
for a gun-shot wound of the abdomen resulting in a gastric fistula ; 
so too the report of a perforating gun-shot wound of the chest with 
recovery in the case of Gen. James Shields, of Mexican War fame. 
Of equal interest were the reports on yellow fever and cholera up to 
the year 1874. Kober learned here to respect the old Army doctors, 
for when referring to them afterwards, in his lectures, he ever insisted 
that "they knew how to use the English language better than men of 
modern times." Whilst engaged in this indexing, Kober had gained 
the confidence and good will of Surgeon-General Barnes and Assistant 
Surgeon-General Crane, of Drs. Joseph J. Woodward and George A. 
Otis, editors of the Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War, 
and Dr. John S. Billings, in charge of the library, and who, with the 
assistance of but one hospital steward, was laying the foundation of 
the Index Catalogue. Billings found Kober of service in supplying 
correct titles for the articles published in the German medical periodi- 
cals. His fellow clerks fittingly christened him "Index" because of 
his unselfish devotion to this trying work, and lest the harvester, 
Time, should rob him of this new birth-right, his close friend, George 
Dowe, on the occasion of Kober's twenty-fourth birthday, did this 
title into the following verse : 



Index you arc rightly named, 

Let thy future name be famed. 

I do not come in grim scholastic mood 

To fulminate some dreary platitude. 

But only wish, my loved and honored friend, 

That hope and peace be your till life shall end. 

Hope, the sheet anchor of the youthful soul, 

And peace when angry waves of trouble roll. 

And, while you practice well the healing art, 

Let strength be given to act the manly part; 

Good common sense to know the good from ill, 

And test the powers of plasters, draught or pill. 

Arid if, upon some distant honored day, 

The men and women you have cured for pay 

Shall add their record to your fair renown, 

By writing some good testimonial dozen, 

Be this the message one and all shall send: 

That every patient zvas your fervent friend. 

Search carefully true wisdom's bounteous stores, 

That all her waiting treasure may be yours. 

May she attend, when years run trembling doivn, 

With honors wreath your whitening hairs to crown. 

Appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. A., he became post surgeon 
in July, 1874, at Alcatraz Island, California, which position he filled 
till November of the same year, at which time he was ordered to Fort 
McDermit, Nevada, in the same capacity. In the fall of 1875 he 
served with the First U. S. Cavalry in the southeastern Nevada expedi- 
tion against hostile Indians and in 187 7 took active part in the Nez- 
Perces war. From July to October of this year the field hospital at 
Kamiah, on the Clearwater, Idaho, was under his charge. 

In November, 1877, he met for the first time Dr. George M. Stern- 
berg, then post surgeon at Walla Walla, and this acquaintance ripened 
into a life-long friendship. Dr. Kober never tired of acknowledging 
his indebtedness to the General for the many inspirations he had 
received from him. Having served as post surgeon successively a 1 
a camp near Spokane, W. T. ; at Fort Coeur d' Alene, Idaho ; Fort 
Klamath, Oregon ; and Fort Bidwell, California, he was relieved 
from this service" on the reception of the following orders, highly 
commendatory of his efficiency : 



Post Orders) Fort Bidwell, California. 

No. 104 ) Nov. 11th, 1886. 

* * * In recognition of the long and faithful professional services rendered 
to the government during the past twelve years in the field, in pursuit of hostile 
Indians, and at various posts, the commanding officer cannot part with him 



without some expression of his feelings of regret, as part of this service was 
rendered under his immediate command. 

His devotion to his professional duties has been warmly recognized not only 
by his commanding officer, but by others, and has stamped him as one of the 
most skilful surgeons in the U. S. Army. 

A steadfast friend, a faithful officer, with the many acts of kindness to all, 
professional and otherwise, he has endeared himself not only to the officers 
and enlisted men of the garrison, but to the community at large, which he has 
helped to build up. * * * He carries with him our best wishes for his 
future welfare and happiness. 

By order of Major Gordon. 

(S : gned). L. M. Brett, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Cavalry. 
Post Adjutant. 

After severing his connections with the army, Kober remained at 
this station caring for his many patients until June, 1887, at which 
time he traveled extensively in America and Europe. He returned to 
Fort Bidwell the following year. In the fall of 1889, we find him in 
Washington devoting his time to college, hospital, and literary work. 
Besides, acting as professor of Hygiene and State Medicine in the 
Georgetown Medical School, he assisted his friend and former class- 
mate, Dr. Carrol E. Morgan, in his specialties, diseases of the throat, 
chest, etc. In the winter of 1889-90, he directed the attention of the 
District authorities to the sewage pollution of the Potomac water, 
indicating this as an important factor in the alarming prevalence of 
typhoid fever in Washington. In August, 1890, he went to Berlin as 
a member of the Tenth International Medical Congress and there read 
a paper entitled, "Etiology of typhoid fever with special reference to 
water-borne epidemics." His California investments necessitated his 
return to Fort Bidwell in December, 1890. He resumed his medical 
practice there and for a year or more was again attending surgeon 
of the post. 

His alma mater welcomed him back to the lecture room in the fall 
of 1893. From this date on, health problems of the District, its social 
and industrial betterment were his one concern. At the request of 
the Health Officer, in 1895, he investigated the possible causes of 
typhoid fever in the city and in his report suggested the agency of 
flies as a transmitter of the disease. His public addresses on various 
occasions and researches into the relative merits of the various pro- 
cesses of water filtration, very materially influenced Congress towards 
appropriating the necessary funds for the installation of the model 
filtration plant at Brookland, District of Columbia. During the years 
1895-96, Kober was a volunteer worker in the Hygienic Laboratory of 
the Public Health Service of the United States. As a member of the 
board of directors of the Associated Charities the housing problem for 
the least resourceful people in the national capital appealed to hin 
with special emphasis and accordingly he is recognized as one of the 
principal promoters of the Washington Sanitary Housing Companies 
organized in 1897 and 1904. Through these agencies sanitary houses, 
at reasonable rentals, have been provided for over eight hundred wage- 



earners and their dependents. The success of this earlier enterprise 
has lent encouragement to a system on a wider basis not only in the 
national capital but other larger cities of the States and merited for 
Kober a gold medal of award at the Paris International Exposition of 
1900. Acting as secretary of two housing companies from the day of 
their organization until November, 1915, upon the death of General 
George M. Sternberg, he succeeded to the office of president. In 1897, 
he was elected an honorary member of the Association of Military 
Surgeons of the United States, undoubtedly in recognition of his 
services as civilian physician in the United States Army as likewise 
because of his able communication "The Place of Military Medicine 
and Surgery in the Medical College Curriculum." When reviewed in 
the light of the recent World War this paper and a kindred one entitled : 
"Higher Medical Education and a Plea for Better Training of the 
Volunteer Medical Officer," published in 1898, have special significance. 
As a medical educator, Dr. Kober strenuously espoused every method 
of scientific research. Thoroughly convinced that animal experimen- 
tation must yield most marvelous results, we find him, as chairman of 
the Committee of Public Health of the Civic Center en February 15, 
1900, filing a most vigorous protest against the enactment of Senate 
Bill, No. 34, whose purport was to restrict the use of animals for 
experimental purposes in medicine. The brief he submitted on this 
occasion embodies facts and arguments which convinced even the 
sponsor of the bill, Senator J. H. Gallinger, that the proposed legisla- 
tion was superfluous. It may be pertinent to mention here that Kober 
very effectually recalled this incident before the Judiciary Committee 
Hearing in November, 1919, when a similar bill by the anti-vivi- 
sectionists was under discussion. In 1901, Kober was selected to 
deliver before the American Medical Association, at St. Paul, Minne- 
sota, the "Oration on State Medicine." His theme was : "The Progress 
and Tendency of Hygiene and Sanitary Science in the Nineteenth 
Century." This same year he was invseted as dean of the medical 
school of his alma mater. His plans for a curriculum calculated to 
insure for medical aspirants a more complete and harmonious education 
was set forth in his "Plea for a Standard Medical Curriculum," read 
before the Association of American Medical Colleges, in 1904. At this 
meeting he was appointed chairman of a "Committee on National 
Uniformity of Curriculum." The report submitted by the committee 
was approved and it is a pleasing reflection to recall that Dr. William 
J. Means, in his presidential address, March 4, 1919, referred to it 
in most appreciative terms. June 14, 1906, Kober was the recipient 
of the honorary degree of Doctor of Law from his alma mater. The 
citation follows : 

"It is fitting that universities should show their appreciation of their 
sons who have done distinguished service in the cause of science and 
humanity. There are none more worthy than they who lessen human 



misery and by their genius and devotion ward off disease and suf- 
fering amongst men. They are the truep hilanthropists, inspired with 
genuine unselfish love for their fellows. Such is the man whom the 
university gladly and gratefully honors today ; a man who besides his 
duties to the public, acknowledged and rewarded already by distant 
nations, has labored in season and out of season for the welfare of the 
medical school of this university and of each individual student until 
his work has been recognized by the official medical body of the United 
States in electing him President of the Association of American Schols 
of Medicine, and in its public declaration that the course of study 
introduced by him into Georgetown Medical School should be the 
standard of all medical schools." 

President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, designated Kober as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Charities and in May of the following year as 
a member of the President Homes Commission. As chairman of the 
Committee on Social Betterment he drew up monographs on "Industrial 
Hygiene" and "Social Betterment," which were published as Senate 
document Xo. 644 in 1008. At the meeting of the first Conference on 
the Conservation of National Resources, which convened at the White 
House May 13, 1908, on invitation of the President of the United 
States, he addressed that body on "The Conservation of Life and 
Health by Improved Water Supply." Dr. Kober has been a member 
of the National Tuberculosis Association since its organization in 
1905. He is also a member of the local Society for the Study and 
Prevention of Tuberculosis. His plans were adopted in the construc- 
tion of the Tuberculosis Hospital in Washington, formally opened to 
patients June 28. 1908, and were awarded a medal at the exposition 
connected with the International Congress on Tuberculosis held in 
Washington in the fall of 1908. He may be very fittingly designated a 
pioneer worker in the crusade against tuberculosis, having read as 
early as 1889 a paper entitled : "Etiology and Prevention of Tubercu- 
losis in the Light of Modern Research," before the Medical Society 
of the District of Columbia. This lecture was published by the State 
Board of Health of California as a special pamphlet in 1890 and was 
followed by a second in 1893, "A Plea for the Prevention of Tubercu- 
losis," which had been previously read before the State Sanitarv Con- 
vention of California. 

Dr. Kober is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, likewise a 
member of the Advisory Council of that same body. Member of the 
Cosmos Club. Member of the Association of American Phvsicians 
(Secretary from 1909 to 1916, at which time he retired and was elected 
honorary member). Member of the American Public Health Associa- 
tion (Vice-President, 1916). Association of American Medical 
Colleges (President in 1906). The National Association for the Study 
and Prevention of Tuberculosis (President in 1915). National Housing 

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Association. Medical and Surgical Society District of Columbia 
(President 1889, 1917-19). The Medical Association of the District 
of Columbia (President 1898). Medical Society District of Columbia 
(President 1903). The Washington Anthropological Society (Presi- 
dent 1901-1918-1920). The Social Hygiene Society of the District of 
Columbia (President 1918-1919). Chairman of the Committee on 
Lectures, Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, 
D. C, September 28th to October 5th, 1908. Honorary Member of 
the Medical and Surgical Society of Washington, D. C, 1910. Presi- 
dent of Section IV, Industrial and Occupational Hygiene of the 15th 
dent 1907-1918-1919). The Social Hygienic Society of the District of 
International Congress on Hygiene and Demography in Washington, 
September 23-28, 1912. Chairman of Sub-Section C, Sociological 
Medicine of the Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in Washing- 
ton, D. C, December 27, 1915 to January 8, 1916. Member of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences (Vice-President 1919-1920.) 

In 1912, Dr. Kober was appointed by the President of the x\merican 
Medical Association, Chairman of a Committee on Red Cross Medical 
Work. This Commitee was created so as to provide a body of repre- 
sentative physicians of approved qualification to direct or participate 
in medical work, carried on by the Red Cross in different localities in 
times of war or emergencies and to advise with representatives of 
that society in handling medical and sanitary problems incident to 
such an occurrence. The Committee up to May, 1916, organized com- 
mittees in 588 county medical societies located in 47 states. During 
the recent world war he was a member of the committee on "Con- 
servation and Welfare of Workers" and chairman of the Committee 
of Rural Workmen's Areas with Special Reference to Housing ; Mem- 
ber of the Council of Defense, District of Columbia ; Chairman of the 
Committee on housing. 

Dr. Kober is the author of 110 monographs, chapters in text books, 
journal articles and reviews on medical, surgical, sanitary and sociologi- 
cal subjects, and over 120 published discussions. His first medical 
essay was on "Infantile Paralysis" published in the Pacific Medical 
Journal in November, 1874, in which he preented all the available 
evidence that the disease was due to some organic lesion of the medulla 
spinalis. In the same year he published his Urinology and its practical 
application. In 1875, he published notes in the American Weekly, Vol. 
Ill, p. 241-243, on chronic dysentery treated with injections of a 
solution of chlorate of potash, and adenitis (tubercular) treated with 
injections of carbolic acid and glycerine. In October, 1876, he reported 
in the American Journal Medical Sciences, a case of gun-shot wound 
of the knee joint, in which he used probably for the first time an 
injection of tincture of iodine and carbolic acid. Dr. Edmond Souchon, 
of New Orleans, in his monograph on "Original Contributions of 
America to Medical Sciences" credits Dr. Kober as having been the 



first to publish notes on the three subjects referred to. He also credits 
him with having been the first to point out that insects, especially flies 
are doubtless frequently the cause of spreading typhoid fever. .Dr. 
Kober's tabulation of 3:50 milk-borne epidemics and his monograph on 
"Milk in Relation to Public, Health" and his first book on "Industrial 
I fygiene," published as Senate documents, and his chapter dealing 
with the effects of .diminished atmosphere upon the health of aviators 
published in 1916, are regarded as pioneer contributions to American 
medical literature. 

Such is the story of a lifetime of sound scholarship and scientific 
achievements which have made him an ornament to the medical pro- 
fession and a consolation to his alma mater. No form of human misery 
has been so low as not to be the object of his solicitude, no need of 
the University has been so insignificant as not to command complete 
response. He has done good in the open, he has done good by stealth, 
but, withal, as one devoid of the spoiling taint of vanity or self-seeking. 
Of a personal integrity unimpeached and unimpeachable, of unswerv- 
ing fidelity in adherence to high ideals of medical education, his is 
the singular privilege to note his name chiseled high on the pilar of 
the temple of fame. 



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■Reprinted from the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 
Vol. Ill, No. 1, 1920.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE M. KOBER, M.D., LL.D. 

Dean and Professor of Hygiene, School of Medicine, 

Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. 

1874 

Infantile paralysis. Pacific Med. and Surg. Jour., San Francisco, 1874, xvi, 261-273. 

Urinology and its practical application, etc. In: Richmond and Louisville M. J. f 

Louisville, 1874, xviii, 229-256, 2 pi.; 357-387, pi.; tables; 469-490; 580-609. 

1875 
Chronic dysentery treated with injections of chlorate of potassa. Am. Med. Weekly, 

Louisville, 1875, m, 241-242. 
Adenitis treated with injections of carbolic acid and glycerine. Am. Med. Weekly, 

Louisville, 1875, m, 241. 
Muriate of ammonia in neuralgia. Am. Med. Weekly, Louisville, 1875, in, 242. 
Incontinence of urine treated with chloral hydrate and belladonna. A. Med. Weekly, 

Louisville, 1875, in, 243. 
Tincture of iron and digitalis in dropsy. Am. Med. Weekly, Louisville, 1875, hi, 243. 

1876 
Report of a case of gunshot wound of the knee joint and right hand treated with 
antiseptic injections of iodine and carbolic acid. Am. J. M. Sc, Phila., 1876, 
n.s., lxxii, 427-431. 

1877 
Die Kriegs-Chirurgie der letzten 150 Jahre in Preussen. A review of Prof. E. 
Gurlt's oration. Am. J. M. Sc, Phila., 1877, n.s., lxxiv, 226-227. 

1878 
Analysis of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865; 
part 2, volume 2; being the Second Surgical Volume. Washington, D. C, 
1876, 4°, 1024, xvi pages. Militararzt, 1878, xxviii, 21-23; xxix, 6-8; 126- 
127; 141-145; 150-152; 157-158; 165-166; 173-176. 

(In this review, the reviewer placed himself on the side of the innovators 
and vigorously combated the objections of Prof. Ashhurst, Hamilton and 
others to enterorrhaphy without visceral protrusion.) 

1881 
Die Gelenk-Resectionen nach Schussverletzungen ; ihre Geschichte, Statistik, End- 
Resultate, von Prof. E. Gurlt. Berlin, 1879, 1333 pp. Review in: Am. J. M. 
Sc, Phila., 1881, n.s., lxxxi, 457-461. 

1885 
Report on the topography, botany, climatology and diseases of Surprise and Goose 
Lake Valleys. 31 p. 8°. Repr. from: Report of State Board of Health of 

199 
Amer. Jour. Phts. Anthrop., Vol. HI, No. 1. 



200 BIBLIOGRAPHY; GEORGE M. KOBER 

California, Sacramento, 1885, ix. (See editorials: Med. Rec, N. Y., Nov. 11 
and Dec. 13, 1886.) 

1889 
Lectures on hygiene. 48 p. 8°. Repr. from: South. Clinic, Richmond, 1889. 

1890 

The etiology and prevention of tuberculosis. 8 p. 8°. Sacramento, 1890. Repr. 

from: Report of State Board of Health of California, Sacramento, 1890, xi. 
A contribution to the etiology of typhoid fever. 7 p. 8°. Berlin, L. Schumacher, 

1891. Repr. from: Verhandl. d. X. Internat. Med. Congr., 1890, Berlin, 

1891, v. 
Referat tiber eine von H. Remondino, San Diego, eingesandte Arbeit : Ueber Meteor- 

ologie und Klima des sudlichen Californien in Bezug auf Leben und Gesundheit. 

Deutsche med. Zeitung, Berl., 1890, 724. 

1891 
Syphilis and prostitution. Virginia Med. Month., Richmond, 1891, xviii, 85-89. 

1892 

The etiology and prevention of infectious diseases. 18 p. 8°. Richmond, 1892. 
Repr. from: Virginia Med. Month., Richmond, 1892-1893, xix. 

1893 

Laparotomy for wounds of the peritoneal cavity. Med. Rec. f N. Y., Jan. 21, 1893. 
The etiology, distribution and prevention of land and ship cholera. 6 p. 8°. Repr- 

from: Proc. State San. Convent., Sacramento, 1893, i. Also: Virginia Med. 

Month., Richmond, 1893-4, xx, 133-152. 

1894 

A plea for the prevention of tuberculosis. 12 p. 8°. Repr. from: Proc. State San. 

Convent., Sacramento, 1894, n. 
A study of soil in relation to health and disease. 29 p. 8°. Richmond, 1894. Repr. 

from: Virginia Med. Month., Richmond, 1894-5, xxi. 
A study of water in relation to health and disease. 37 p. 8°. Repr. from: Rep. 

State Bd. Health Calif., Sacramento, 1894, xm. 

1895 

Impure milk in relation to infantile mortality. 15 p. 8°. Repr. from: J. Am. M. 

Ass., Chicago, 1895, xxv. __ 

A plea for vaccination. 16 p. 8°. Repr. from: Virginia Med. Month., Richmond, 

1895-96, xxii. 
Max Bartel : Die Medicin der Naturvolker, ethnologische Beitrage zur Urgeschichte 

der Medicin. Leipzig, 1893. (A review, with a condensation of the subject 

matter on primitive, minor and major surgery.) Repr. from: Virginia Med. 

Month., Richmond, 1895-96, xxii. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 201 

Report of the prevalence of typhoid fever in the District of Columbia. Report of 
the Health Officer of District of Columbia, 1895, 254-292. Also: Abstracts of 
Sanitary Reports of the Marine Hospital Service, December, 1895, 1157-1203. 
Also: Editorials Med. Rec, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1896, 267. 

Morbific and infectious milk (with S. C. Busey). Report of the Health Officer of 
District of Columbia, 1895, 299-378. Also: Public Health Reports, Feb. 14, 
1896, 118-131. Also: Editorials J". Am. M. Ass., Chicago, March 7, 1896, 487; 
Med. Rec, N. Y., Apr. 18, 1896, 557; Am. Med.-Surg. Bull, N. Y., May 23, 
1896, 694. 

1896 

A study of milk in relation to health and disease. 51 p. 8°. Sacramento, 1896. 

Repr. from : The 14th Biennial Report State Board of Health. 
Opium habit in the District of Columbia. U. S. 54th Congress, 2d Session. 

Senate Document 174, January 21, 1897. 
Report of the Editorial Committee of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. 

Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1896, 3. 
Trachoma (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1896, 11. 
Milk bacteria (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1896, 99. 
Diphtheria (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1896, 111. 
Skin diseases (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1896, 120. 

1897 

Relations of water supply and sewers to the health of cities with special reference 

to the City of Washington. Public Health Reports, Wash., 1897, xn, 197-200. 
The place of military medicine and surgery in the medical college curriculum. Repr. 

from: Proc. Ass. Mil. Surgeons, U. S., Carlisle, Pa., 1897, vn. 
Predisposition and immunity. 7 p. 8°. New York, 1897. Repr. from: Pract. Med. , 

N. Y., 1897, viii. 
Prevention of puerperal fever. 16 p. 8°. Richmond, 1897. Repr. from : Virginia 

M. Semi-Month., Richmond, 1897, i. 
The progress and achievements of hygiene. (Address before the Anthropological 

Society of Washington.) 12 p. 8°. Repr. from: Science, N. Y., 1897, n.s., vi. 
Syphilis (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1897, 9. 

Scurvy and rickets in children (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1897, 27. 
Bubonic plague (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1897, 56-57. 
Malarial diseases in the District of Columbia (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. 

Col, 1897, 73-75. 
Neurasthenia (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1897, 207. 

1898 

Higher medical education and a plea for better training of the volunteer medical 
officer. 5 p. 8°. Repr. from: Virginia M. Semi-Month., Richmond, 1898, in. 

Water supply and sewage disposal in the District of Columbia. U. S. 55th Congress, 
2d Session. Senate Document 183, February, 1898, 16-25. 

Pollution of rivers. U. S. 55th Congress. 2d Session. Senate Document 194, 
March, 1898, 32-40. 

Arthritis deformans (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1898, 14. 



202 BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 

Typhoid fever (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1898, 47-54. 
Gangrene of eyelids (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1898, 109. 
Hydrophobia (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1898, 113. 
Malarial fever (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1898, 117. 
Expectorants (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1898, 120. 
Ruptured spleen (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1898, 163. 

1899 

Many of the causes of so called school diseases found in the home. U. S. 55th Con- 
gress, 3d Session. Senate Document 65, February, 1899, 40-43. 

Sarcoma of the testicles; conclusions based upon one hundred and fourteen cases. 
18 p. 8°. Repr. from: Am. J. M. Sc, Phila., May, 1899, cxvu. 

The effects of modern fire arms in war. (Address before a joint meeting of the 
Anthropological and Medical Societies of Washington.) 6 p. 8°. Repr. from: 
Nat. Med. Rev., Wash., October, 1899, ix. 

Filtration, the pollution of streams and the purification of public water supplies, 
U. S. 56th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Document, 1900, 8 p. 

Protest from the civic center of the District of Columbia against the passage of 
Senate Bill No. 34, providing for the further prevention of cruelty to animals 
(Vivisection Hearings). U. S. 56th Congress. Senate Document, 101-111. 

Report on the housing of the laboring classes in the City of Washington, D. C. 
Repr. from: Report of the Health Officer of District of Columbia, 1899, 107-121, 
1 plate. 

The fiftieth anniversary of the graduation in medicine of Doctor Samuel Clagett 
Busey, compiled and edited by George M. Kober, 63 p. ports. 4°. Washing- 
ton, 1899. ("Dr. Busey, physician, author and teacher," 37-42.) 

Texas fever (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1899, 3. 

Malaria (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1899, 19. 

Medico-mihtary affairs (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1899, 24. 

Milk laboratories (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1899, 36; 145. 

Report of the Committee on longevity (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 
1899, 103. 

Uric acid diathesis (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1899, 110. 

Convulsions in typhoid fever (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1899, 
153. 

Knee-joint-shot-injuries (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1899, 160. 

Katatonia (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1899, 181. 

1900 

Shall alcohol be considered as a food? 7 p. 8°. Repr. from: Virginia M. Semi- 
Month., 1900, v. 

Conclusions based upon 330 outbreaks of infectious diseases spread through the 
milk supply. 6 p. 8°. Read before Section of Epidemiology and hygiene, 
13th Internat. Med. Congress, Paris, August 4, 1900. Repr. from : Am. J. M. 
Sc, Phila., 1901, cxxi. 

Army nursing (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1900, 18. 

Tuberculosis (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1900, 66; 71. 

Remarks on science building. Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1900, 106. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 203 

Therapeutic effects of sunlight (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1900,173. 
Paragonimus Westermanni (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1900, 179. 
Typhoid fever infection (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1900, 182. 
Smallpox (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1900, 189. 
Gunshot injuries (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1900, 214. 

1901 

The need of addi tional playgrounds , parks and reservations. U. S. Senate Committee 

on District of Columbia, March 27, 1901. 
The pollution of streams and the purification of public water supplies; comparative 

efficiency of slow sand and mechanical niters. 8 p., 1 table. 8°. Repr. from: 

J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, 1901, xxxvr. 
The progress and tendency of hygiene and sanitary science in the nineteenth century. 

(Oration on State Medicine delivered before the meeting of the American 

Medical Association, St. Paul, Minn., 1901.) 31 p. 8°. Repr. from: J. Am. M. 

Ass., Chicago, 1901, xxxvi. Also: N. Y. M. J., June 8, 1901, 991; Med. Rec, 

N. Y., June 8, 1901, 898; and also: Lancet, London. 
Recent books on hygiene (a review). 6 p., roy. 8°. Repr. from: Science, N. Y., 1901, 

n.s., xrv. 
Sudden death after gastroenterostomy (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 

1901, 26. 
Gonorrhea in women (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 38. 
Filtration of the municipal water supply (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 

1901, 55; 68. 
Tapeworm (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 95. 
Cancer (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 105. 
Obituary on Dr. James W. H. Lovejoy. Trans.. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 125. 
Report of the Editing Committee of the Medical Society. Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. 

Col., 1901, 137. 
Syphilis (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 159. 
Report of Prof. Waldeyer's visit to Washington. Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 

251. 
Uncinariasis (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col., 1901, 270. 
Diphtheria (Discussion). Trans. Med. Soc. Dist. Col, 1901, 302. 

1902 

Butter and butter substitutes and their relation to health and disease. Abnormal 
milk and milk-borne diseases. Statement before the Committee on Agriculture, 
House of Representatives, U. S., Tuesday, January 14, 1902, p. 37-135, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Milk, butter and butter substitutes (read before the Am. Social Sc. Ass., April 24, 
1902). Repr. from: Am. Med., Philadelphia, 1902, ra, 1085-1089. 

The causation of disease. 63 p. 8°. Repr. from: Wash. Med. Ann., 1902, I. 

Review of five text-books on hygiene. Science, 1902, 218-227. 

Report of the Executive Committee of the Medical Society of the District of Colum- 
bia on the proposed consolidation of the medical work in the District Govern- 
ment. Wash. Med. Ann., April 2, 1902. 

House-sanitation. Ref. Handb., M. Sc, 2d ed., N. Y., 1902, iv, 750-769. 



204 BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 

Milk in relation to public health. Milk-borne diseases. Ref. Handb., M. Sc., 2. ed., 
N. Y., 1902, v, S33-843. See also: Rev. ed., 1914. 

Milk in relation to public health. The necessity for the enactment of Senate Bill 
entitled "A bill to regulate the production and sale of milk and cream in and 
for the District of Columbia." U. S. 59th Congress, 1st Session. Senate 
Document 441. 235 p., 15 plates. 8°. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1902. 
See also: Editorials J. Am. M. Ass., 1902, 1397; Phila. M. J., 1902, 653; Med. 
Rec., N. Y., 1902, 897. 

The etiology of intermittent fever (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1902, 25-26. 

Causation of disease (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1902, 62. 

Obituary on Dr. W. W. Johnston. Wash. Med. Ann., 1902, 171. 

1903 

The canteen. 22 p. 8°. Repr. from: Am. Med., Phila., 1903, vi. 

The transmission of bovine tuberculosis by milk, with a tabulation of eighty-six cases. 

26 p. 8°. Repr. from: Trans. Ass. Am. Physicians, 1903. 
Obituary on Dr. Walter Reed. Wash. Med. Ann., January, 1903. 
The liver as a factor in the cause and prevention of disease (Discussion). Wash. 

Med. Ann.. May, 1903, 99. 
Drug adulterations (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1903, 226-227. 
Human and animal tuberculosis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1903, 246- 

247. 
Chronic bronchitis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Sept., 1903, 184. 

1904 

A review of the work of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia during the 

past eighty-five years. (President's address.) Repr. from: Wash. Med. Ann., 

1904, ii. 
A plea for a standard medical curriculum (read before the Association of American 

Medical Colleges). Repr. from: J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, August 13, 1904. 
Rheumatoid arthritis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1904, 482. 
Surgical methods among savage races (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., March, 1904, 

73. 
Scarlet fever (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann. f July, 1904, 205. 
Obstetrics (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1904, 218. 
Delirium tremens (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Nov. 1904, 357. 

1905 

The physical and physiological effects of child labor. Address delivered at the 

Meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, Washington. 4 p. 8°. New 

York, 1905. 
Suggestions concerning the administrative control of venereal diseases. 7 p. 8°. 

Repr. from: J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, March 11, 1905. 
Report of the committee on national uniformity of curricula of the Association of 

American Medical Colleges. 6 p. 8°. Repr. from: J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, 

1905. 
Etiology of appendicitis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1905, 427. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M, KOBER 205 

Caesarian section (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 1905, 87. 

Rational versus empirical therapeutics (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1905, 

204. 
Modern treatment of tuberculosis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Sept., 1905, 254. 
Senile cataract (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Nov., 1905, 295. 
Smallpox (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Nov., 1905, 313. 

1906 

Our LL.D.'s response to a toast at the banquet of alumni, Georgetown University, 

June 4, 1906. In : Georgetown College Journal. 
The health of the City of Washington. (President's address of the Anthropological 

Society of Washington.) 14 p. 8°. Repr. from: Charities and Commons, 

N. Y., March 3, 1906. 
The prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by state methods. Pan-Am. Med. 

Congr., Panama, 1906, n, 249-258. 
Washington Filtration Plant. Discussion on water filtration. Proc. of Soc. Civil 

Engineers, 1906, xxxn, 959-961. 
President's address at the meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 

Proc. Ass. Am. Med. Colleges, 1906. 
President's address (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1906, 336. 
Gastric ulcer (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1906, 359. 
Diseases among Indians (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1906, 386. 
Appendicitis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 1906, 8. 
Protozoal human parasites (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 1906, 54. 
Therapy of pulmonary consumption (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., May, 1906, 82. 
Eye cases (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., May, 1906, 86. 

Obituary on Dr. Louis Mackall (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Sept., 1906, 212. 
Ophthalmology (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Nov., 1906, 266. 

1907 

Die Herstellung reiner Milch fur kleine Kinder in Washington. Repr. from: Ztschr. 

f. Sauglingsfiirsorge, Leipz., 1906-7, i, 375-380. 
Arbeiterwohnungen in Washington. Internat. Kongr. f. Hygiene u. Demographie, 

Berlin, September 23-29, 1907, XIV. Ber., 1908, iv, 339-345. 
Unterbringung von schwerkranken Schwindsuchtigen und der Luftkur bedurftigen 

leichtkranken Tuberkulosen in einem und demselben Krankenhause. Internat. 

Kongr. f. Hygiene, etc., Berlin, September 23-29, 1907, XIV. to., iv,423-433. 
The history and development of the housing movement in the City of Washington, 

D. C. 64 p. 8°. 1907. (See editorial /. Am. M. Ass., Feb. 27, 1909.) 
The combat of scientific medicine with superstition (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 

Jan., 1907, 335. 
Report of tuberculosis cases treated at Starmont Sanatorium (Discussion). Wash. 

Med. Ann., Jan., 1907, 345. 
Obituary on Dr. David Henry Hazen. Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1907, 410. 
Tuberculosis (Remarks). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1907, 422-425. 
Schott treatment of chronic diseases of the heart (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 

Mar., 1907, 27. 
Medical inspection of schools (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 1907, 45-46. 
Naval medical service. Wash. Med. Ann., 1907, 282; 290; 380. 



206 BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 

Sanitary milk production. Report of a Conference appointed by the Commissioners 
of the District of Columbia. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Circular No. 114, 
August 20, 1907. 

1908 

Industrial and personal hygiene. A report as chairman of a Committee on social 

betterment of the President's Home Commission, Washington, D. C, 1908. 

175 p. 8°. (See Editorials: J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, 1909, 138; Boston M. 

and S. J., 1908, 448; Bull. Bureau of Labor, No. 75, Wash., 1908.) 
Hygiene and public health; a review of Prof. Louis C. Parkes' textbook. Science, 

1908, n.s., xxviii, 924-926. 
The Tuberculosis Hospital in Washington, D. C. 6 p. 4 plates. 4°. Washington, 

1908. 
Conservation of life and health by improved water supply. Address delivered at the 

Conference on the conservation of natural resources, White House, Washington, 

May 13-15, 1908. 51 p. 8°. 
Address delivered at the complimentary banquet to Surgeon General George M. 

Sternberg on his 70th birthday, June 8, 1908. 30 p. 8°. 
The fight against tuberculosis in various countries. Opening discussion. Sixth 

Internat. Cong, on Tuberculosis, Washington, D. C, September 28 to October 

5, 1908, iv, pt. 1, 105-110. 
Pterygium (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1908, 432. 
Internal medicine (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Jan., 1908, 450. 
Report of the Committee on Public Health. Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 1908, 30. 
The causes of typhoid fever in the District of Columbia. Wash. Med. Ann., Mar., 

1908, 98-103. 
Acid-intoxication (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., May, 1908, 147. 
Principles of aseptic surgery (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., May, 1908, 186. 
Snake-poisoning (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1908, 276. 
Obituary on Anne H. Wilson. Wash. Med. Ann., July, 1908, 284-286. 
Appendicitis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., Sept., 1908, 307. 
Congratulations extended by the Medical Society to Dr. Kober on bis White House 

address. Wash. Med. Ann., Sept., 1908, 315. 

1909 

Report of the committee on social betterment, President's Home Commission, 
Washington, D. C. 278 p. 8°. Also: IT. S. 60th Congress, 2d Session. 
Senate Document 644, January 8, 1909. (See Editorials: J. Am. M. Ass., 
Chicago, 1909, 895; also; April 24, 1909.) 

Contents of the report on social betterment: Alimentation and foods. Food and 
home betterment. The causation and prevention of disease. Infant mortality. 
The prevention of permanent disabilities in childhood. Sexual and moral 
prophylaxis. The tobacco habit. The alcohol question. Patent and proprie- 
tary compounds containing sufficient alcohol to be intoxicants. The drug habit. 
The nostrum evil in general. Sociological studies of 1,251 families. The scale 
of wages and the cost of living. Suppression of usury. 

Review of hygiene and sanitary science (read before the Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia, April 14, 1909.) Repr. from: Wash. Med. Ann., vin, 
No. 3. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 207 

The influence of sewers and general sanitation upon the prevalence of tuberculosis. 

Repr. from: Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., 1909, xx. 
Civics and health: review of Prof. Allen's book. In: Charities, N. Y., 1909. 
The general movement of typhoid fever and tuberculosis in the last thirty years. 

Tr. Ass. Am. Phys., 1909. Also: Am. J. M. Sc, Philadelphia, November, 1909. 
Pure food and drugs. Bull. Vermont State Board of Health, December, 1909, No. 2. 
Eczema in children (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, vm, 428. 
Gall stones (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, vm, 436. 
Case of acute yellow atrophy of the liver (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, 

vm, 124. 
Obituary on Doctor Robert Reyburn. Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, vm, 141-142. 
Review of hygiene and sanitary science. Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, vin, 167-181. 

Discussion, 184. 
A plea for a more liberal diet in typhoid fever (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 

1909-10, vin, 199. 
Flexible instruments in urethral stricture (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, 

vin, 210. 
Prevention of ear infection in scarlet fever (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, 

vm, 238. 

1910 

The influence of pure water and air upon the health of communities. Bull. Vermont 

Slate Board of Health, March, 1910, No. 3. 
Review of some recent literature with special reference to anti-typhoid vaccination, 

the hygiene of medical cases, transmission of disease by insects. Bull. Vermont 

State Board of Health, June, 1910, No. 3. 
Statement before Senate Committee on Public Health concerning the creation of a 

Department of Health. June, 1910. 
Diseases which menace public health and morals (read at the twelfth annual school 

for the instruction of health officers.) Repr. from: Bull. Vermont State Board 

of Health, 1910, xi. 
Milk in relation to public health. Bull. State Board of Health, California, 1910. 
The dissemination of disease by dairy products and methods of prevention. U. S. 

Dept. Agriculture, Bur. Animal Industry, Circular 153, April 28, 1910. Re- 
view: Wash. Med. Ann., 1910, 324-327. 
Dispensary tuberculosis work (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1909-10, vin, 370- 

371. 
Thymol in uncinariasis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1910-11, rx, 41. 
Measles and mice (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1910-11, ix, 60. 
Obituary on Dr. Thomas Taylor. Wash. Med. Ann., 1910-11, ix, 78-80. 
The written law in reference to the unborn child (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 

1910-11, ix, 160. 
Digestion in fever (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1910-11, rx, 401. 

1911 

The hygiene of schools and the prevention of permanent disabilities in children. 
Lecture before the thirteenth annual school of instruction for health officers, 
Burlington, Vt., August 21, 1911. Bull. Vermont State Board of Health, xii, 
No. 1. 



208 BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 

Pernicious anemia (Discussion). Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Philadelphia, 1911, 
xxvi, 294. 

Toxicity of alcoholic beverages (Discussion). Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Philadelphia, 
1911, xxvi, 66. 

The prevalence and control of venereal diseases. Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Phila- 
delphia, 1911, xxvi, 155-165. 

Use of vaccines in gonorrheal arthritis restoring the power of locomotion (Discussion). 
Wash. Med. Ann., 1911-12, x, 11. 

Use of tincture of iodine as an injection in gunshot wounds (Discussion). Wash. 
Med. Ann., 1911-12, x, 165; 179. 

1912 

The management and control of infectious diseases. Lecture before the fourteenth 

annual school of instruction for health officers. Bull. Vermont State Board of 

Health, 1912, xn, No. 4. 
The venereal peril. Lecture before the fifteenth annual school of instruction for 

health officers. Bull. Vermont State Board of Health, 1912, xin, No. 1. 
The hygiene of occupations (Chairman's address). Tr. XVth Internat. Cong. 

Hygiene and Demography, Washington, 1912. 
The management and control of smallpox and other eruptive fevers. Lecture 

before the fifteenth annual school of instruction for health officers. Bull. Vermont 

State Board of Health, 1912, xm, No. 1. 
Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses. Ibid. 
Psychopathic work at the Washington Asylum Hospital (Discussion). Wash. Med. 

Ann., 1911-12, x, 240. 
Typhoid and venereal prophylaxis in the United States Army (Discussion). Wash. 

Med. Ann., 1911-12, x, 265-266. 
Rickets and tuberculosis among Indians (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1912, xi, 

118. 
Shall the professor be in practice? (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1912, xi, 166. 
Busey, Samuel Clagett, 1828-1901. In: Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography 

. . . from 1610-1910, ed. by Howard A. Kelly, Philadelphia, 1912, i, 140-143. 
Eliot, Johnson, 1815-1888. In: Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography . . . 

from 1610-1910, ed. by Howard A. Kelly, Philadelphia, 1912, i, 279-280. 

1913 

The progress of public health and the need of increased federal health activities in 
the United States. 9 p. 8°. Repr. from: Case and Comment, August, 1913. 

Occupational diseases, with special reference to the stone cutting industry in Ver- 
mont. Lecture before the fifteenth annual school of instruction for health 
officers. Bull. Vermont State Board of Health, xm, No. 3. 

A condensed history of the hospitals and medical charities in the District of Columbia. 
Repr. from: Annual Report of Board of Charities, Washington, 1913. 

The sense of hearing from a hygienic standpoint (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 
1913, xii, 48. 

Anti-typhoid vaccination in the army (Discussion). Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, 
Philadelphia, 1913, xxvm, 466. 

Syphilis among school children (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1913, xn, 228-229. 

Hospital milk (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1913, xn, 240-241. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 209 

1914 

Sanitation in ancient civilizations (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1914, xiii, 349- 
351. 

Streptococcus sore throat (Discussion). Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Philadelphia, 
1914, xxix, 292. 

1915 

Tuberculosis with special reference to its prevention. Address of the President at 
the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention 
of Tuberculosis, Seattle, Washington. Repr. from: Tr. Nat. Ass. for Study 
and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1915. 

The child and the home. Tr. Nat. Ass. for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1915. 

Tuberculosis with special reference to its epidemiology, transmissability and preven- 
tion. Repr. from: Public Health Reports, Oct. 29, 1915, No. 339. 

Chapter "Avoid house dust" in Washington Health Rules, a collection of chapters 
dealing with the essentials of hygiene published by the Association for the 
Prevention of Tuberculosis, 1915. 

A plea for a cancer clinic (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1915, xiv, 77. 

1916 
Address at a memorial meeting in honor of George Miller Sternberg. Repr. from: 

Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, xv, 81-91. 
Diseases of occupation and vocational hygiene (edited by Kober and Hanson). 

918 p. 8°. Philadelphia, Blakiston Sons & Co., 1916. 

Dr. Kober wrote the chapter on the effects of diminished atmosphere, with 

special reference to aviators (p. 211-217), and also the chapters on the etiology 

and prophylaxis of occupational diseases (p. 417-761). 
The Army Medical Museum; a history (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, xv, 

33-34. 
Ernest Pendleton Magruder; an appreciation (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 

1916, xv, 57. 
Actinomycosis (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, xv, 61. 
Responsibility of the physician with respect to the insane patient (Discussion). 

Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, xv, 117. 
Infant welfare and infant mortality (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, xv, 273. 
Psychoanalysis in its relation to psychiatry (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1916, 

xv, 342. 
Dr. Agramonte's resolution of condolence on the death of General George M. Stern, 

berg (Remarks). Proc. Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, Wash., 

Dec. 27, 1915- January 8, 1916, ix, 314. 
Housing of wage earners, by Dr. Lawrence Veiller (Discussion), Proc. Second Pan- 
American Scientific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 1915- January 8, 1916, rx, 319-320. 
International agreements in relation to the suppression of vice, by James B. Reynolds 

(Discussion). Proc. Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 

1915- January 8, 1916, ix, 504. 
Discussion of papers relating to social medicine. Proc. Second Pan-American Scien- 
tific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 1915- January 8, 1916, ix, 584. 
The significance of chemistry in water purification, by E. Bartow (Discussion). 

Proc. Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 1915- January 

8, 1916, x, 226-227. 



210 BIBLIOGRAPHY, GEORGE M. KOBER 

Fresh air and ventilation in the light of modern research, by C.-E. A. Winslow 
(Discussion). Proc. Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 
19 15- January 8, 1916, x, 243-244. 

George M. Sternberg: Historical r6sume of investigations of yellow fever leading up 
to the findings of the Reed board (Discussion). Proc. Second Pan-American 
Scientific Congress, Wash., Dec. 27, 1915-January 8, 1916, x, 650. 

1917 

Artificial pneumothorax in the treatment of tuberculosis (Discussion). Wash. Med. 

Ann., 1917, xvi, 78. 
American achievements in medicine (Discussion). Wash. Med. Ann., 1917, xvi, 160. 
Cirrhosis of the liver (Discussion). Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Philadelphia, 1917, 

xxxii, 478. 
Effects of dust inhalation upon the lungs. Tr. Ass. Am. Physicians, Philadelphia, 

1917, xxxii, 106-107. 

1918 

Sanitation of rural workmen's areas with special reference to housing. Committee 

on labor, Council of National Defence. Repr. from: Public Health Reports, 

September 6, 1918, no. 487. 
Recent developments in infant feeding. Discussion of Mr. Emile Berliner's address 

read before the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Washington, 

D. C, November 25, 1918. 

1919 

The venereal problem in civil life. Address delivered at the first of a series of 
educational lectures and film exhibitions before medical schools. Bull. U. S. 
Public Health Service, Feb. 1, 1919. 

Osier's influence on American medicine (Osier's anniversary volume, 1 919) . In press. 

Protest by Dr. Kober, dean of the Medical School, Georgetown University, against 
the passage of Senate Bill No. 1258: Providing for the prevention of experi- 
ments on the dog. Vivisection hearing before the U. S. Senate Judiciary 
Committee, November 1-4, 1919, 101-108. Washington, D. C, Govt. Print. 
Office, 1919. 

Occupations in relation to tuberculosis. Address delivered before the College of 
Physicians, Philadelphia, December 17, 1919. In press. 

Chapters on hygiene for elders. In: Illustrated Health Rhymes for Children, 
Washington, 1919. 

Miscellaneous. 

Description of Frankford Arsenal. Army and Navy Journal, N. Y., August 12, 1871. 
Auch eine Ansicht iiber deutsche Schulen. Washington Journal, September, 1873. 
Amerikanisch-deutsche Klinik. Washington Journal, April, 1874. 
Das Central-Dispensarium in Washington; eine arztliche Anstalt fur unbemittelte 

Kranke; das deutsche Element zahlreich vertreten. Washington Journal, 

June 29, 1874. 
Aus dem fernen Westen. Washington Journal, June 26, 1877. 
Rifle practice for the army and navy. Army and Navy Journal, N. Y. August 10, 

1878. 



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The Army Mutual Aid Society. Army and Navy Journal, N. Y., October, 1878. 
"St. John's Day." Original poem delivered at Masonic celebration at Fort Bidwell, 

California, June 22, 1883. Lake County Examiner, Oregon, June 30, 1883. 
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Fourth of July oration delivered in 

Cedarville, California, July, 1885. 
Columbian oration delivered at Fort Bidwell, California, October 21, 1892. Alturas 

Plain Dealer, October 23, 1892. 
Complimentary dinner to Dr. Joseph J. Kinyoun, Washington, May 20, 1899. 

Address. Repr. from: Georgetown College Journal, June, 1899. 



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